Chris Outcalt

Associate Editor

Chris Outcalt edits department pieces for 5280. He also writes and edits service packages and narrative features, as well as contributing to 5280.com. His November 2010 narrative feature investigated the first murder in Vail in three decades (“A Murder in Vail”). Outcalt grew up in upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains and earned a degree in journalism at the University of New Hampshire. Before turning to magazines, he worked as a reporter at newspapers in New Hampshire and Colorado, winning multiple awards for his work, including being named "Rookie of the Year" by the New Hampshire Press Association in 2006. He lives in Denver.

When it comes to the taxing process of searching for a new house, homebuyers can use just about any advantage they can get. And Greenwood Village–based Metrolist—a company that tracks real estate listings in the Denver metro area—hopes its new website, recolorado.com, becomes a go-to tool for...

During last month's election, four Front Range communities took on different versions of a similar question: to frack or not to frack? In three of those communities, the answer was clear. Residents in Boulder and Fort Collins passed five year moratoriums on fracking. Lafayette banned hydraulic...

Here's a bit of good news: Colorado's unemployment rate in October dipped to the lowest it has been in almost five years. The latest figures released by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment show the Centennial State's unemployment decreased one tenth of a percentage point to 6.8...

On March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush gazed into a camera from behind his Oval Office desk and told the American people we were going to war with Iraq. We’ve been fighting ever since. Which means an entire generation of children has grown up knowing only a world in which the United...

The University of Colorado Boulder has produced five Nobel Prize winners and eight MacArthur Fellowship recipients. This fall, Ana Maria Rey, a theoretical physicist originally from Colombia, joined the vaunted club when the MacArthur Foundation awarded Rey a “genius grant” for her...

Denver International Airport has long been one of the busier airports in the country and currently ranks fifth in traffic behind Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Dallas. But the airport has also expanded its role on the international travel scene. In this month's 5280, we take a look at...

When it comes to the real estate market these days, it seems just about any news is good news. The latest batch of data on home prices both nationwide and in Colorado comes from a recent report by CoreLogic, a company that tracks real estate figures. And, indeed, the report paints a good-looking...